The young cellist Julia Hagen combines technical virtuosity with the highest artistic standards and has won acclaim both as an orchestral soloist and in diverse chamber music groups with prominent co-performers.
As the winner of the UBS Young Artist Award 2024, she began the 2024/25 season by making her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann at the Lucerne Festival. Other highlights of the season have included concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Nil Venditti, and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona under Elena Schwarz, along with her US debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst. She also returned to perform with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Constantinos Carydis, and appeared with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Valentin Uryupin at the Vienna Konzerthaus and with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the Vienna Musikverein. She is currently one of the Junge Wilden (Young Wild Ones) at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.
In 2021 she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival, and has returned regularly ever since.
Among her many chamber music activities, trio concerts with Igor Levit and Renaud Capuçon at the Berlin Philharmonie and a tour throughout Germany and Italy with a Schoenberg-Brahms programme deserve special mentions. Her other chamber music partners include Anneleen Lenaerts and Lukas Sternath.
In 2019 Julia Hagen, together with her long-term chamber music partner, pianist Annika Treutler, released her first album for Hänssler Classic, featuring works by Brahms.
Julia Hagen comes from Salzburg and studied at the Mozarteum University there with Enrico Bronzi, at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Reinhard Latzko and Heinrich Schiff, and with Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University of the Arts. Until 2022 she held a scholarship at the prestigious Kronberg Academy with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
She has won prizes at the international cello competition in Liezen and at the Mazzacurati Competition, and received the HBW-Kulturpreis and the Prix Jean-Nicolas Firmenich at the Verbier Festival.
Julia Hagen plays a 1684 cello by Francesco Ruggieri from Cremona, which is privately on loan to her.
